Heaven on Earth

Bonne nuit guys!! I just came back from a bible study on my lovely church at Jakarta. During the service today, my father shared a short devotion before the real pastor preached. He was talking about making heaven on earth which scripture is taken from Matthew 6:9-10. That verse inspires me so much!! It says:



9 In this manner, therefore, pray: 

 Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. 
 10Your kingdom come. 
Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.



He said that for those who BELIEVE and LIVE in Jesus, will experience heaven on earth. Make it even more focus, not the real heaven yet, but the REALM of heaven. If you really live and trust Jesus, you shall experience ‘heaven’. Wonderful right?



Making things easy for you, catch this analogy. (LOVEE ANALOGY SO MUCHH <3)

Have you ever gone for a trip by car? Just few weeks ago I was travelling to Belitung island in Indonesia. It is extremely beautiful. I personally believed that this island will be the next Bali. So, back to focus, as I was driving to Tanjung Tinggi beach from the central city (which located in the middle of the island), I realized that there is a transition from a rainforest-like atmosphere towards a beach-and-sea-like atmosphere. When you almost arrive at the beach, you will feel the atmosphere of the beach already EVENTHOUGH you are not in the beach yet! You can feel the sea breeze, the coconut trees waving at you, and the soil composition on the roadsides start turning into a mixture of sands.




Get what I mean?

We all understand and have faith that those who believe in Jesus name will go to heaven when they died. But more than that, as a Christian, we should have a ‘taste’ of heaven, even before we are there! It is the Realm of Heaven. So, let’s create the realm of heaven on earth. Faith is bigger than proof. right? :)



Auf wiedersehen ;)!

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Bones and The Breath

Bonjour Freunde! It has been a very exiting week for me personally as my little sister was having a birthday, a sweet 17 even more :)! My fingers have not kissed the comp keyboard for quite long, and I think I should redeem it by writing some posts today. So enjoy guys!! :D!

Few days ago, as usual I was reading the old Testament (it’s seriously thought-provoking XD) and somehow I was caught by Ezekiel 37: 1-14. (Read it up at http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel+37&version=NKJV )

If you have read it, you will understand that Ezekiel was given a REAL vision upon Israel. God Himself makes a defeated army back to life from dry bones. I will jump around seriously if I saw this happening in front of my naked eyes. It is a beyond-belief miracle! But here in this post, I want to focus on one very thing that make me understand further about how God created human and what human is.

Inside Ezekiel 37, God asked Ezekiel to prophesy to the BONES to build the human BODY. Yet the body is still soulless. Then God asked Ezekiel to prophesy to the BREATH and now the body lives. The dry bones become an exceedingly great army. Do you get what it means? So what is important here?




Yes, it is BREATH. God wants to remind us again that a body without “breath” are just nothing and not alive. This unity between a human body and a breath is a symbol of the unity between human and God on how a human without God is just a completely soulless body.

Moreover, these bodies only can become an exceedingly great army, when the “breath” is inside them. Why this is amazing? Because before the “breath” is given, they were just a defeated weak army, who died tragically on the midst of a valley. But when the “BREATH” is given, the weak transform into the great army. So, do you want to be the exceedingly great person? Have the BREATH of God on your life. J!! Be blessed!!

Auf wiedersehen :)

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The Soap

Bonjour everyone!! Hahaha it’s the first time I’m using a French word on this blog. It’s good to learn a new language. They are so mysterious and exciting :D:D!! anyway it has been a very long time since my last post. Finally I have found a little time right now to write this blog before I go today. So let’s start the analogy! Love analogy soo much <3 XD!!

A week ago, I went to a skin doctor, and they told me that my skin is quite sensitive that I need to change my body liquid soap with the original basic block soap. The next day in the morning, I was going to take shower yet amusingly I could not find my new powerful block of soap on my bathroom. I keep looking DOWN the floor, the bathtub, the closet, and washbasin, everywhere. I could not find it, even at the sneakiest corner of my bathroom! I felt so stressed as I have tried my best and look for it repeatedly (almost 10x!) and I need to go for working (I’m almost late!!). After feeling so depressed, I asked my maid for help. Then she just laughed and told me, “look UP, it’ just up there”. Yes, she was the one who put it there, as she could not find any place to put it BELOW. I was so amused and stunned. Simple story, yet it has a big impact upon me.



(LOOK UP guys!!! The moon is so beautiful up there!!! #randomthought ;p)



So what’s the moral of the story? If you search for an answer for any of your trouble, never only LOOK DOWN and search for it, LOOK UPWARD too. Or maybe the best way is to LOOK UP FIRST before look down and search for it. Somehow I remember a very beautiful verse that I always keep on my heart from the bible,

Matthew 6:33, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.”

It is a simple verse, yet a very powerful one for me. Often in our life, we have many questions that we could not answer by ourselves. It is funny that many try with their best to search for the answers by themselves, LOOKING down at the “world” and search for the answers. But do you know that, our God has all the answer to all what we need? My horrible experience with the soap is simply retarded, yet it contains the most powerful thing I have ever imagined. Why don’t we try to LOOK UP first before looking down at the world? If we can find the “soap” from UP there, why we bother taking time to find the “Soap” from down the world which will indeed bring no result. So, try too LOOK UP, Jesus might just be the right answer for you. :D

Auf Wiedersehen,

Dieu Vous Benisse (D.V.B)

(God bless u in French, my “French revolution” hahaha ;p)